I'm happy to announce that BikingBis.com will host an interview with author David Rowe about his newly released eBook, The Ride of Your Life, on Feb 12.
The Ride of Your Life is a book for sport-recreational cyclists who want to increase their mileage and their enjoyment of events of 100 miles or more. I reviewed it last week.
There are two ways to win free copies of the ebook (it sells for $19.95). If you send in a question to David for the Q&A, you'll be eligible for one of five eBooks that will be given away. Also, if a story you write about an inspirational bicycling experience is chosen for an upcoming book, you'll also receive a free copy of the book …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/05/two-ways-to-win-free-copies-of-the-ride-of-your-life-ebook/
Seattle news outlets are reporting that the cyclist in Wednesday morning's collision with a van in Ballard has died.
The 39-year-old man, identified as Kevin Black, was taken to Harborview Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The collision occurred shortly before 9 a.m. near the intersection of 24th Avenue NW and NW 65th Street.
Police told the Seattle Times that the cyclist was heading downhill on 24th when he moved into the two-way left-turn lane to pass a van. When the van entered the left-turn lane the bicycle went under it.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer profiles Black in a story that has quotes from coworkers and friends who gathered at the intersection last night. A molecular neurobiologist for the UW Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Black leaves behind two daughters. He was an avid cyclist who belonged to Alki Rubicon Racing Team …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/05/cyclist-dies-in-collision-with-van-in-ballard-updated/
Mavic USA is recalling 12,000 R-SYS front wheels that were sold as original equipment on road bicycles or sold separately during a 19-month period ending in December.
The company says that the carbon tubular spokes on the front wheels can break, causing a crash and fall hazard. Mavic received one report of a fall.
Mavic and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission are urging bicyclists to stop using the wheels immediately.
Free, upgraded R-SYS replacement wheels will be available beginning March 31. To make things right, R-SYS owners can turn in their recalled wheels immediately and receive a Aksium wheel for immediate use that they can keep after the R-SYS are delivered …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/04/mavic-recalls-12000-r-sys-front-wheel-rims/
Mavic recalled 12,000 R-SYS wheel rims. Check Consumer Product Safety Commission for more details.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/04/mavic-recalls-wheels/
If you have some old bicycle parts in your garage, and who doesn't, now you can put them to use if you have an artistic bent.
Spartanburg, South Carolina, is seeking applications from artists to make outdoor sculptures made from a substantial amount of recycled bicycle parts.
The sculptures will be part of Artcycle, which helps celebrate the Spartanburg Creative Energy campaign in May.
The sculptures don't necessarily have to be made wholly from bicycles, like this piece hanging in the Washington DC Convention Center a few years ago …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/04/wanted-artists-to-create-recycled-bicycle-parts-sculptures-in-spartanburg/
Organizers of the 2009 Bicycle Film Festival are imploring filmmakers and other bicycling fans to “Make a Bike Movie.”
Coming up on its ninth year, the show is extending its entry deadline to March 7. In the past, the festival has shown everything from under-10 minute shorts shot with a hand-held to slicker-looking, feature length documentaries.
At left is a compilation of 2007 festival trailers.
According to its Bicycle Film Festival website:
“The Bicycle Film Festival is a celebration of bicycles through film, art and music. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/03/enter-your-film-in-the-2009-bicycle-film-festival/
Looking at the “road cred” of the cyclists in the 2009 Amgen Tour of California, you could support the tour organizers' assertion that this is “the strongest field of professional cyclists ever assembled in the United States.”
The full roster of 136 cyclists on 17 teams are listed below. Scanning the list, I don't see many of today's top cyclists who aren't on it, except for former Tour de France winners Alberto Contador, and Oscar Pereiro. I'd expect a high level of competition as the race rolls through California Feb. 14-22.
Leading the bunch will be 2-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer, above. Joining him on the Astana team will be comeback king Lance Armstrong, winner of 7 Tours de France….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/03/2009-tour-of-california-roster-released-best-ever-in-us/
Ride the Rockies and Bicycle Tour of Colorado bike tour routes both leave from Glenwood Springs.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/02/two-colorado-bicycle-tours/
Bicyclists who like the rarified air of the Rocky Mountains and enjoy the camaraderie of mass bicycle tours are in luck this summer.
Two week-long bike tours — Ride the Rockies and Bicycle Tour of Colorado — are scheduled to leave Glenwood Springs on back-to-back weeks, enabling cyclists to go from the completion of one ride to the beginning of the other.
Organizers for the Denver Post Ride the Rockies announced its route this weekend. It begins with registration in Glenwood Springs on June 13, covers 380 miles of the Rocky Mountain scenery and returns on June 19. It's the first year in its 24 year history that Ride the Rockies has been routed as a loop…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/02/glenwood-springs-launches-ride-the-rockies-and-bicycle-tour-of-colorado-in-2009/
The Wenatchee World has published an inspiring story about bicyclist Ed Farrar's rehabilitation from spinal injuries he suffered in October when a car crossed the centerline and crashed into him head-on.
People in central Washington know Farrar, 57, as a respected surgeon with Wenatchee Orthaepedics. Cycling fans know him as the father of Tyler Farrar, 24, a sprinter on Garmin Chipotle.
Some 13 weeks after the collision, Farrar has returned home and is getting used to life in a wheelchair. Everyone agrees that the crash could have killed him, but a set of circumstances combined to accelerate this treatment …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/01/bicyclist-ed-farrars-battle-to-recover-from-crash/
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